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H5 Data Centers has announced the expansion of its renewable energy and sustainability initiative by purchasing renewable energy certificates (“RECs”) to offset 100% of the energy consumption at its Cleveland data center. Through this purchasing program, H5 Data Centers will reduce the environmental impact of its energy use and support renewable energy projects throughout North America. The certificates are sold in blocks of kilowatt-hours (kWh) and are a blend of the following resources: wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, geothermal, and hydroelectricity.

The REC purchase adds to H5’s 478-kW solar array that was announced earlier this year. Through the solar array and multiple other energy-efficiency initiatives, the Denver data center has been a multi-year recipient of Xcel Energy’s Data Center Efficiency Award. The decision to leverage renewable energy alternatives and implement sustainability initiatives comes at a time when demand for data centers nationally is accelerating to support rapidly-growing digital applications.

“H5 Data Centers continues to make investments across our national footprint to improve the reliability and efficiency of our data centers,” said Josh Simms, founder and CEO of H5 Data Centers. “The REC purchasing program allows our customers and H5 Data Centers the ability to invest in sustainability initiatives for data centers that have a significant carbon footprint.”

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With the number of edge sites on the rise, it’s critical for you to know what’s going on in the network at any given moment. However, it’s likely there are sites you have never visited. So, if you don’t know exactly what a site looks like, what security measures are in place, or even where it is located, how can you have true visibility into the physical environment? The answer is by having good sensors in place.

One Wilshire building in Los Angeles, one of the most densely connected buildings in the world, houses 450,000 square feet of data center. Organizing the organic growth of disparate cooling equipment was a major concern for its owners, who were working with the engineering team and manufacturers to increase the cooling capacity. The goal was to achieve 4000 tons of scalable cooling, with a target of 50% free cooling.
Learn from the experts who completed this project in 2018 — about how they achieved the basis of design for One Wilshire tenants and exceeded the energy efficiency goals of the project by 25%, which is 62 times the amount required by Title 24 in California.